Cinema: Surfs Up

The Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic
celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of
polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed
by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up
by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who
probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before
business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and
has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket as producer,
director, narrator and promoter of documentary movies about...